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Artist Statement:
My work has always been
grounded in issues from living
the day to day. I see the
visual world as a mirror of
human priorities and in much
of my work I use digital
images from self taken
photographs as a starting
point.
My work is process intense and
is meant to initiate an
examination of the inherent
responsibility that goes with
living.
My work explores many
different issues. Among which
are: the use of technology to
generate the work, the ability
of art to quietly evoke visual
memories, the juxtaposition of
the uncontrolled and the
controlled in living, the
blurring of the boundaries
between the serious and the
trite, the questionable truth
of the photo image.
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PRESENTATIONS and
PUBLICATIONS:
Selected Participant- College
Art Association, 2/07, NYC.
Paper: Going Beyond the Studio
Walls/A Liberal Arts
Partnership
Selected
Participant-International
Symposium on the Arts and
Society 2/07, NYC
Paper: The Making of an
Artist: Building On Past
Practices While Looking to
the Future.
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The Space Between
Tova Beck-Friedman
Perceive not the object
but the distance
between them not the sounds
but the pauses
they leave unfilled
Takahiko Limura, from, "MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji"
The space between is a magical space. The Japanese refer to it as Ma, a concept, strongly rooted in their living patterns and in the arts. It is the space between that enables perception to occur. Ma is the place in which a life is lived, where the process of movement from one place to another is organized. Ma is the sign of the ephemeral -- it is an empty place where all kinds of phenomena appear, exist and disappear. Ma is the way to sense the moment of movement.
In her latest exhibition at the Phoenix gallery, Pamela Flynn shows a series of small, meticulously executed mixed media works on paper entitled “Can the Road Kill?” In this series Flynn replicates an image of an animal that has been hit and killed on the road. At the center of each of pieces is a snapshot of a dead animal printed, cut, stitched and painted onto white paper. The dichotomy between the meticulously executed, pristine pieces and their gruesome protagonist is unsettling. Conceptually the focus of the roadkill is not the dead animal, but a metaphor through which the artist explores the ephemeral phenomenon of the space in between, the space and time between engagement and comprehension, between event and consequence.
In Caught In The Loop 1, a small rectangular digital print of a dead animal embellished with encaustics is stitched on to a white paper. Flynn’s white paper does not serve as a background. It acts as a space from which one can glean clues – a stitched line above and a sewn up twig loop below. In Pledge Of Allegiance, a victimized animal is draped in a three-colored cloth reminiscent of the American flag. The rectangular space closing in on the animal consists of a cluster of pincushion heads with two rows of holes punctured into the white paper above. Caught In The Headlights depicts an animal, perhaps a deer, lying on a gray and black wave of pincushions.
Employing labor-intense mixed media, Flynn’s work relies heavily on process art. But unlike process art, where the exploration of process is the central aim of the work, Flynn’s process calls attention to conceptual issues of action and reaction. It is the twilight zone of comprehension -- the space between the act and its realization, between reality and perception.
Good Things in Small Packages
By: Susan Van Dongen , TimeOFF 09/24/2003
Bordentown's Firehouse Gallery hosts an exhibit of miniatures.
In an era when the cultural preference seems to be for huge homes, vehicles and food servings, tiny things may be difficult to notice. That's why Eric Gibbons says it's been somewhat risky to present an exhibit of miniatures at his Firehouse Gallery in Bordentown.
"When people see such small works of art they're often taken aback," Mr. Gibbons says.
Someone must still believe the old saying "good things come in small
packages," though, because this is the third year the Firehouse Gallery has hosted such a show. Mr. Gibbons says sales of these diminutive works of art are quite brisk. Perhaps it's because the small size draws you in for a closer look and viewing the art becomes an intimate experience.
This year, the exhibition of more than 250 miniature paintings, drawings and pieces of sculpture runs from Oct. 3 to Dec. 23, with a semiformal opening reception Oct. 3. The public also can see the extensive renovations Mr. Gibbons has made to the gallery at an informal open house Oct. 4…………………..
……………………….. Pamela Flynn of Freehold approached the invitation to create miniature works of art from a completely different direction. Her ceramic "bud studies" — which, indeed, resemble exquisite little flower buds — were originally crafted as part of the set to a performance-art piece.
"They started as form studies and then they were part of a performance piece that has to do with being bound to physical reality," Ms. Flynn says. "They were, essentially, accessories on the wall. People started to tell me how much they liked them, especially because they're very pretty and touchable. So I started to exhibit them by themselves. I'll only be showing the smallest ones (at the Firehouse) but they range in size from very large to tiny.
"A couple of years ago at an installation at Space 126 Gallery in Baltimore, they all hung on the wall in a straight line," she continues. "I've also shown (my buds) at Gallery Mia Tyson on Wilmington, N.C., and, just last winter, at the Phoenix Gallery in New York. So they've been shown together and separately."
This is the first time Ms. Flynn has exhibited her work at the Firehouse Gallery. "Since (the buds) are very, very tiny, I thought it might be an interesting venue for them," she says.
Ms. Flynn's buds are an intriguing concept, since they're sculptural but with elements of painting to them as well. She uses a tiny brush and oils to paint on the ceramic surfaces. She's also created the buds to hang on the wall.
"It's kind of different and nice, because you don't have to stand them on a table," she says. "I enjoy making them. It was a very creative, spontaneous, free-form process. What I'm working on now is totally different — much more deliberate."
She's referring to her ongoing project, Can the Road Kill?, which Ms. Flynn will be exhibiting in spring 2004 at the Phoenix Gallery. The multimedia pieces start with snapshots the artist took of deer killed along the roadways. She digitally manipulates the photos, prints them, cuts them out, stitches them onto paper and decorates them.
"The format is always a controlled, repeated rectangle," Ms. Flynn writes in her artist's statement. "The work explores many different issues, including the use of technology to generate the work — from the killing to the printing."
Ms. Flynn has a bachelor's degree from Monmouth University, a master's in fine art education from Kean University and a master's of fine arts from New Jersey City University. She's an associate professor of art at Holy Family University in Philadelphia and has been an adjunct instructor at Bergen Community College, Brookdale Community College and Ocean County College. She is a member of the Philadelphia chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art and has been showing her work nationally since 1983.
Her goal with all of her artwork is "to bring form to the unseen."
"It's all about the process of living," Ms. Flynn says. "Artists just take things in and give it back out again individually."
Paintings by Jane Lawrence, Patricia Hornbrook Becker and sculpture by Pamela Flynn are part of the Third Annual Miniature Exhibition at the Firehouse Gallery, 8 Walnut St., Bordentown, Oct. 3-Dec. 23. Opening reception: Oct. 3, 7-9 p.m; RSVP by Oct. 1. Open house: Oct. 4, noon-4 p.m. For information and gallery hours, call (609) 298-3742. On the Web: www.firehousegallery.com. Pamela Flynn on the Web:http://www.phillyart.net/pamelaflynn
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